Word: deaded
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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ATHLETICS.English Amateur Championships, London, April 15. - 4-mile bicycle race, R. R. MacKinnon, 14 min. 9 2/5 sec.; mile-run, A. F. Hills, Oxford, 4 min. 28 4/5 sec.; half-mile run, H. Whateley, Oxford, and L. Knowles, Cambridge, dead heat in 2 min. 3 3/5 sec.; 100-yards, L. Junker, L. A. C., 10 1/5 sec.; quarter-mile, J. Shearman, L. A. C., 52 4/5 sec.; 120-yards hurdles, S. Palmer, Cambridge, 16 1/5 sec.; seven-mile walk, H. Venn, L. A. C., 52 min. 25 sec., first mile in 6.35; wide jump, E. Baddeley, Cambridge...
...WHITE, in his little pamphlet, sets forth three truths, which applied to Greek are as follows: first, Greek language should be taught rather than Greek grammar; secondly, it should be taught as a living rather than as a dead language, in the spirit of Greek rather than in that of English; and thirdly, it should be learned by observation rather than by rote, by principles rather than by rules, with intelligence rather than with blindness, and with pleasure rather than with pain. In short, Mr. White would have Greek to us a fountain of living waters and not a dead...
Oxford University, Keble College, March 16. - 100 yards, E. D. Lear and C. T. Sanctuary (dead heat). 11 sec.; 440-yards handicap, C. T. Sanctuary (5 yds.), 53 4/5 sec.; high jump, M. F. Remington, 5 ft. 1 in.; 440 yards, J. E. Masters, 55 1/5 sec.; mile-race, P. A. Sullivan, 4 min. 54 sec.; 1000-yards open handicap, R. C. Black (St. Albans...
...there was a time when I prided myself upon my knowledge of Chemistry, and gave every spare moment to the science. "Sed tempora mutantur, et nos mutamur in illis." Excuse the quotation; only the dead languages can express my feelings. Before I came to Harvard I studied a couple of years in a Western college, and there I grew interested in Chemistry. My teacher was a man of many subjects, who might be classed as a Professor Intelligentiae Generalis. He taught Chemistry, Moral Philosophy, Botany, Geology, and Greek, besides occasionally some other branches when either of the other two professors...
...Pope was dead, and, feeling in the same condition as to my examinations, I determined to go into Boston to see the services. I had a vague impression, arising perhaps from my experience of St. Patrick's Day, that something green would be appropriate. Accordingly, I borrowed a green necktie from a Freshman friend next door, and set forth. Arriving at my destination, I succeeded in forcing a way through an immense crowd of the faithful with what clothing a reasonable man would expect to have left at such a time. Once in, I saw around me all sorts...